The speaker of this poem recalls how "from billow to billow you still called and sang, standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel," as well as describing the addressee as a "pale blind diver," a "luckless slinger," and a "lost discoverer." The phrase "in you everything sank" ends six of its couplets, and the phrase "It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!" is also repeated. In the collection in which this poem originally appeared, it follows a poem which begins "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." For 10 points, name this poem which accompanies twenty love poems in a collection by Pablo Neruda.
The speaker of this poem recalls how "from billow to billow you still called and sang, standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel," as well as describing the addressee as a "pale blind diver," a "luckless slinger," and a "lost discoverer." The phrase "in you everything sank" ends six of its couplets, and the phrase "It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!" is also repeated. In the collection in which this poem originally appeared, it follows a poem which begins "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." For 10 points, name this poem which accompanies twenty love poems in a collection by Pablo Neruda.
The speaker of this poem recalls how "from billow to billow you still called and sang, standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel," as well as describing the addressee as a "pale blind diver," a "luckless slinger," and a "lost discoverer.
“A {Song of Despair}” [or “Una {Canción Desesperada}”]